Satanic_Hamster: Lsherm: No kidding.

ROMNEY, YOU AREN'T A COMMON MAN! QUIT TRYING TO ACT LIKE ONE!

When Obama farked up with his arugula comment, he didn't make the same mistake twice. Every time Romney opens his mouth, it's like he's trying to one-up himself. I fully expect a comment within the next week about how he really likes french fries because he steals a few from his maids whenever they have some. Maybe he could biatch about real estate taxes on second homes.

I still don't understand how anyone can consider that a fark up. You can buy arugula at any grocery store for close to the same price as other lettuce. And he was standing in a room of farmers who freaking RAISED arugula.

It's like the Grey Poupon thing. Obama orders Grey Poupon for his hamburger and the right-wing media goes off on him. "Ooooo, MUSTARD'S too good for him! Plus, it's FRENCH mustard! Elitist snob!" You've seen it for 4 years now. If they can beat Obama up for anything, they will. And they'll invent shiat if they can't find anything worthwhile. My favorite is lambasting him for supporting the Chicago Olympic bid. You saw how the Teabaggers cheered when a US city got dropped in the 2nd round of bidding. Just because Obama supported it. Incredible.

I'm surprised they didn't pounce on him for singing last week.

DROxINxTHExWIND: bulldg4life: I_C_Weener: Looks like I hit a nerve. You go guys. Fight the good fight. Your team is counting on you.

People pointing out your stupid statement is a coordinated effort to attack you! All the lefties got the email to descend and call you stupid. You're an innocent bystander in all of this.


Hey! Sorry I'm late. I saw the lefty bat signal and I got a message that I_C_Weener was in a thread spreading a rightr wing message. Please tell me I'm not too late to help.

Well it does appear that the brigade is all here now. Please commence Operation I_C_Weener. I am clearly the threat here.

brigid_fitch: You'd think the GOP would learn

aaaaaaaaaaahahahahahaha :snort:

snowshovel: I know this is the whole purpose of strawman arguments. But when someone says something like "I have friends who are NASCAR team owners" or "Now, I know there are people in Congress who think I am doing the wrong thing.." or anything related to "those people" or "my friends".

...the VERY NEXT THING someone SHOULD ask is: "Yeah??? WHO?" I mean, this is the very first thing that you learn to ask when your 1st grader brings up these mysterious people; you'd think we'd hold elected officials to at least the same standard as that.

Good point.

I_C_Weener: Well it does appear that the brigade is all here now. Please commence Operation I_C_Weener. I am clearly the threat here.

Your taillight's out, and uh, and uh, you've got no, uh, knees.

Jackson Herring: brigid_fitch: He worked the free market like his biatch and showed what capitalism could really do.

Well, what it could do for HIM.

But that's the entire Republican point of capitalism, isn't it? Here's the system, at your feet. It's yours to work with to build your wealth. Everything he did was completely above-board and he completely played by the rules, regardless of how out-of-whack we think they are. He's the shining example of decades of business-friendly laws & loopholes.

Mind you, I'm hardly a Romney supporter--I think he's a shiat politician with absolutely no backbone or strength of will. I'm convinced he only got as far with Bain because of his father (and, Lord knows, Daddy's money surely helped). All I'm saying is that I'm stumped as to why he just doesn't dig in his heels and say, "Yeah, I did that. Isn't that the whole farking POINT?"

brigid_fitch: But that's the entire Republican point of capitalism, isn't it? Here's the system, at your feet. It's yours to work with to build your wealth. Everything he did was completely above-board and he completely played by the rules, regardless of how out-of-whack we think they are. He's the shining example of decades of business-friendly laws & loopholes.

Oh, I wasn't disagreeing with you there. Just throwing in my two cents.

The Slush: QUICK, SOMEONE TAKE A PICTURE OF HIM MOPPING A FLOOR

Does the, "Look, we do our own laundry!" pic count?

AngryDragon: They have GOT to be throwing the election. It's the only thing that makes sense.

Romney is there man to win. If Romney's campaign is throwing in the towel, it's either because his people have internally come to the conclusion that it's better to lose the primary than lose the general election (setting up a fall-guy like Santorum to end their career against Obama), or the order came from higher up the chain to abort mission for the same reason.

But I think it's far more likely that Romney simply doesn't know that regular people suffering under Republican austerity don't own their own NASCAR teams. He probably thinks the service staff on his private jets fly home on their own private jets. Doesn't everyone own a private jet?

Bloody William: Did I_C_Weener say something stupid? Let's all insult him for it because it was stupid and not because we're all paid by the Democrats and many of us are alts, proving a further conspiracy.

There you go beating up on poor Weener again.

skullkrusher: Angry Drunk Bureaucrat: doyner: Remember when Karl Rove said Obama was the "elitist" at the country club? Pepperidge Farms remembers.

That's because they make those racist mulatto cookies.

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I used to have that cassette..

Headso: The idea that social services that help people

An assumption on your part, and often incorrect and wildly so. My state (NY) spends more on social services than any other, mainly thanks to a colossal Medicaid program. I don't see much evidence that poorer New Yorkers are "helped" all that much, given what's being spent.

Take food stamps, for example. There is extensive research showing that people on food stamps consume more processed crap...not because they're lazy slobs, but because it's often either cheaper or more convenient, or both. Eventually they get fat. Eventually diabetes and heart disease develop.

A sane, compassionate and long-run-cheaper alternative would be to provide an equivalent amount of nutritious food instead of a benefits card.

Maud Dib: Angry Drunk Bureaucrat: Jackson Herring: I'm just a regular Joe. Why I'm good friends with Arthur Maytag...

Fun fact: the grandsons of the Maytag founder are now dairy farmers in Iowa, specializing in Blue Cheese.

It's pretty good cheese, btw.

Even more fun of a fact.....Fritz Maytag gave up the family business and bought a lil' old brewery on the West Coast and helped revive the American Craft Brewing industry.


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Hmmm... cheese AND beer? My GOD man! Don't you see? That's a vast conspiracy to create soiled, smelly pants and thereby drive up the need for clothes washers through vertical integration....

I must alert the media!

Bloody William: 1: Laundry isn't a two-man job until folding. If you're just changing loads or putting in detergent, there is no reason for more than one person.
2: Who has a commercial paper towel dispenser in their laundry room?

It's a hotel laundry room. You can tell cause they have those single-load detergent packs that you get from the front desk.

Gulper Eel: Headso: The idea that social services that help people

An assumption on your part, and often incorrect and wildly so. My state (NY) spends more on social services than any other, mainly thanks to a colossal Medicaid program. I don't see much evidence that poorer New Yorkers are "helped" all that much, given what's being spent.

Take food stamps, for example. There is extensive research showing that people on food stamps consume more processed crap...not because they're lazy slobs, but because it's often either cheaper or more convenient, or both. Eventually they get fat. Eventually diabetes and heart disease develop.

A sane, compassionate and long-run-cheaper alternative would be to provide an equivalent amount of nutritious food instead of a benefits card.

Or they could just restrict the foods you can buy with food stamps, like the WIC-approved food list.

Lsherm: Every time Romney opens his mouth, it's like he's trying to one-up himself.

My guess for his next one is that he gives a speech at a black church in the south and makes a joke about plantations.